Northamptonshire v Yorkshire - day four County Championship updates

YORKSHIRE need five wickets in the final session to win their County Championship match against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.

At tea on day four, the hosts are 212-5 in their second innings and there are a minimum of 32 overs left in the game.

Will Young has 91 and Lewis McManus 12.

Northamptonshire resumed on 123-3 after lunch having weathered the loss of those three early wickets.

The County Ground, Northampton. Picture:Tony Marshall/Getty ImagesThe County Ground, Northampton. Picture:Tony Marshall/Getty Images
The County Ground, Northampton. Picture:Tony Marshall/Getty Images
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Will Young and Rob Keogh continued a stand worth 44 and endured few alarms in the afternoon sunshine.

Keogh took two leg-side boundaries off a Dom Bess over, while Young worked the ball well on both sides of the wicket.

Yorkshire missed a chance to remove Young on 62 when he edged Haris Rauf through a vacant second slip region, a gap then immediately plugged by the visiting team.

Yorkshire had gone almost three hours without a wicket when George Hill finally broke through with his first delivery.

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Bowling from the David Capel End, having been kept back until the 73rd over, Hill induced a leading edge from Keogh which was taken by captain Steve Patterson at short extra-cover.

Keogh’s departure for 48 from 124 balls with six fours ended his stand with Young at 99 and left Northants 178-4.

That became 195-5 in the final over before the second new ball was available when spinner Dom Bess trapped Luke Procter lbw on the back foot for 13.

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